/* Filename:  product.cpp

   Author:  Br. David Carlson

   Date:  July 5, 1998

   Revised:  July 30, 1998 so that a Product object no longer contains
   a string, but only a pointer to a string outside of the object.

   Revised:  March 19, 2013

   This file implements the Product class that was set up in product.h.
*/

#include "product.h"


/* Given:  InitialName   A string containing the product name.
           InitialYear   The year this product was made.
           InitialPrice  The product's price.
   Task:   This is the default constructor.  It creates a new Product
           object containing the 3 items listed above, except that
           the object just contains a pointer to the InitialName string.
   Return: Nothing is directly returned, but the object is created.
*/
Product::Product(ShortString InitialName, int InitialYear, float InitialPrice)
   {
   // Allocate space outside of the object for a string:
   NamePtr = new ShortString;
   // If the new fails, the bad_alloc exception is unhandled and should
   // cause the program to abort.
   
   // Recall that you cannot simply assign one string into another.
   strcpy(NamePtr, InitialName);
   Year = InitialYear;
   Price = InitialPrice;
   // Just so that you can see when the constructor is called, print:
   cout << "Constructor called for object with name " << InitialName << endl;
   }


/* Given:  Nothing other than the implicit object.
   Task:   This is the destructor.  It destroys the implicit object,
           reclaiming all space that it used, including the space for
           the associated string outside of the object.
   Return: Nothing.
*/
Product::~Product(void)
   {
   // Print a message just so that you can see when the destructor
   // gets called:
   cout << "Destructor called for product named " << NamePtr << endl;
   // Explicitly reclaim the space used by the string:
   delete [] NamePtr;
   }


/* Given:  Nothing (other than the implicit object).
   Task:   To print the data contained in this object.
   Return: Nothing.
*/
void Product::Print(void) const
   {
   cout << "Product name: " << NamePtr << endl
      << "Year made: " << Year << endl
      << "Price: " << Price << endl << endl;
   }